sunrise that mary just talked >> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. about. it is beautiful. >> remember your next local your world in 90 seconds. update is at 7:26. >> here lies a great man. have a great day everyone. he never failed to answer the good morning to our viewers call to serve his country. in the west. >> washington pays its five it's tuesday, december 4th, respects. >> after a brief ceremony, members of the public came in by the thousands. 2018. dignitaries and everyday americans pay their respect to >> on capitol hill to brief george herbert walker bush. lawmaker s on the death -- norah o'donnell is at the capitol. >> we'll talk to some of the >> in central arkansas, a third thousands of people lining up to grade student is dead, dozens say good-bye to the 41st hurt after a bus carrying a president. plus a look at his personal youth football team crashed along a busy interstate. letters to friends and family. >> a protest as the school >> lesley stahl will be in studio 57 to share memory. proposes to bring back a >> also, the search for a confederate statue. missing florida woman in costa >> snl star pete davidson rica. why the family questions the accounts of people who saw her opening up about suicide. >> davidson says he's faced alive. >> a wells fargo computer glitch may have forced hundreds of relentless announcement online. >> a florida trooper badly hurt homeowners into foreclosure.

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>> and welcome to "cbs this morning." as the nation continues to mourn and reflect upon the loss of the 41st president of the united states. norah o'donnell is reporting from washington, where people are paying tribute to president george h.w. bush. the president's flag covered callous k casket lies in state. a steady stream of visitors has passed through since last night. one of the planes carried the houston to joint ers of his base andrews near washington. the casket was brought to the capitol shortly before sunset. they say it's almost like mother nat ur knew this was aery waited capture the historic norah remohis part of the story. >> good morning. that's right, i went and visited some of the people who have

waited in line all night to catch a glimpse of the former president and pay their respects. you know what they said, they came here because this marks in some ways an end of an era because the last president of the greatest generation was brought here to washington for a five time. he lay in state overnight, which is now open 24 hours a day for people to come and pay their respects. he will continue to lie in state for another day before his state funeral tomorrow morning at the national cathedral right here in the nation's capitol in washington, d.c. throughout the evening, thousands kept coming including his vice president dan quayle and defense secretar ch w served his son melania. earlier, mr. trump sent air force one, designated as speciar

ultimately in th highest office. his son, former president george w. bush, waved, just as both had so many times as president. back in washington, beneath a water color the sky, his cass ke casket was carried into the capitol. it's where he started his political career a half century earlier as a congressman from texas. inside a military honor guard placed the last u.s. president to serve in comb battle on the same platform which once held the casket of president abraham lincoln. ♪ and tears filled the eyes of some of the most lawyer members of his inner circle.

>> president bush personified grace. >> house speaker ryan recalled it was the first president he campaigned and vote the for. >> really drew me into politics. >> vice president pence remembered a letter his son received in august. >> when our son made his first tail hook landing as a marine aviator on the george herbert walker bush, i took the liberty of writing the ship's namesake just in time for my son's winging. there came not only signed photograph but of course a letter. >> outside waiting in line others who had never heard from the former president personally said they still felt his message. >> he wallace a war her was a w represents american greatness to me. >> american greatness. those were some of the words i heard as i talked to people going in to pay their respects. they also mention the it was important that a man named david

brought his son keegan, just 12 years old, to see the president lay in state. and he said he wanted to show his son there are still great men out there and public service is a noble calling. president trump has had a rocky relationship with members of the bush family but the president saluted his predecessor last night when he and the first lady visit the united states capitol. major garrett has been following it all. he is at the white house this morning with what to expect. major, good morning, good to see you. >> reporter: good morning. all living u.s. presidents including trump, our nation's 45th president, will attd wednesday's funeral for president george h.w. bush. now the nation remembers the clashes, either direct or indirect, between trump in 2016 and the bush family. all that has been set aside. president trump has been

officially nothing but respectful, gracious and complementary. here at the white house monday, the president tweeted, quote, looking forward to being with the bush family to pay my respects. white house officials tell us they'll be a meeting today between president trump, first lady melania and the bush family. both republicans of course but very different in style and temperament. president bush, bipartisan, kinder, gentler in his words. president trump disruptive not only within the republican party but washington writ large. there's also clashes over policy when president trump denounces immigration law. once put in place by president i but the c differences of e, all set aside as the passing of the president, and the first family has been nothing but respectful of those traditions, the institution and especially the bush family. >> congress paying their respects, thank you. the house is delaying votes and

scheduled testimony during the tributes to president bush. nancy cordess is on capitol hill. they're supposed to get a lot of work done. >> bush did manage to bring congress together in one respect. congressional leaders have agreed to a funding deal in order to head off a bitter spending fight and a prospect of a partial shutdown next week. the focus this week is really on the former president lying in state here at the capitol. now they'll have time to debate a long-term spending plan after his casket departs on wednesday. it's still a pressing issue though. president trump has said he's open to a government shutdown if he doesn't get more funding for a southernge f hous judiciary by posthe former attorney general loretta lynch and the google ceo. both of those hearings could be rescheduled for next week. t congress up against a wall when

it comes to government funding, because if they can't figure out a spending deal by december 21st, then this would be a working holiday. >> seems like deja vu all over again, putting their work off and trying to do it last minute. for now, let's send it back to new york. >> all right, norah, thank you. you know, we've almost for gotten what it looks like when you see washington working together, both sides of the aisle really paying respect to a president, right? >> one man who said her personified american greatness. >> in our next hour, we'll talk to cia director robert gates about his close relationship with president bush in an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." cbs news will provide full coverage of tomorrow's state funeral. we'll bring that to you in a special report here on cbs. congressional sources tell cbs news cia director gina haspel is expected to brief key

senators today on the killing of jamal khashoggi. members of the armed services committee. the cia declined to comment. khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey, about two months ago. a cia assessment concluded that the saudi crown prince salman ordered the killing. haspel's absence at a briefing last week angered some senators like bob corker. >> i thought the presentation didn't meet the standards it should have met and i thought -- i told them on the phone and made comments close to the end i thought they'd made a really big mistake not having gina haspel there from the cia because it made it seem there were details they didn't want the whole is standing re in. by the crown prince, causing friction with some congressional republicans. the university of north carolina relocating a toppled confederate monument and many students do not like it.

hundreds protested at the campus in chapel hill last night. one group says the decision to move the statue to a new $5 million campus building is creating what they believe is a safe space for white supremacy. >> reporter: gayle, moral. the silent sam monument ordered north carolina's confederate soldiers who died during the civil war. it was pulled down by protesters in august after more than 100 years in campus. it is university says even if they want to, they can't legally do it. several hundred students marched through the unc chapel hill campus monday night. some scuffling with police while protesting the school's decision to relocate the confederate monument known as silent sam. since 2015 across the country, more than 100 monuments and confederate symbols have been removed. a recent report finds there are

still more than 700 confederate monuments in the u.s. and nearly 100 of them are in north carolina. >> i have a preference to move it off campus but like everyone here, i swore to obey the law. >> reporter: chapel hill administrators say as a public state university it really had no choice but to keep silent sam on campus. a 2015 law passed in north carolina prohibits state agency from permanently removing or even relocating state-owned memorials or statues. >> that law is a convenient for them and something to hide behind and say we can't do anything. >> reporter: he is on the u.s. board of trustees. he says he supports the university's plan but he can't ignore the history behind that monument. >> this monument is a reminder that black people were owned by white people as property and the institution of slavery was enforced by unconscionable brutality. >> reporter: so in the proposal, unc says the more than $5

million building that will house the statue is also going to house other historical artifacts. it's expected to open in 2022 but the unc board of governors is next week going to review the propose pal. >> you'll follow that, david, thank you. arkansas state police are looking for the cause of a bus bus flipped monday 9-year-old morning on interstate 30 near little rock. it was taking youth football players home to memphis after a championship tournament in dallas. omar villafranca is in little rock. >> reporter: good morning. we just learned the bus driver's name is yula jarrett and most of the passengers were in eleme elementary school. there's still four kids at arkansas' children's hospital. one told us he felt the bus swerve and violently roll. >> i woke up when i heard a lot of screaming and the coaches were trying to keep everybody

calm. >> reporter: he is one of 26 children, some he said as young as 6 years old, who were injured when their charter bus ran often this highway ramp. the 13-year-old walked away with 18 stitches in his head and a bruise around his left eye. >> i thought i was going to die. and we lost one. >> reporter: the crash killed 9-year-old kameron johnson. his mother used to take care of kameron. >> he was a joy. he was an amazing little boy. >> bring me all the medical supplies you got. >> reporter: dr. todd maxen says the flood of patients filled the er. >> the injuries range from injuries to the and brain to lots of lacerations, lots of broken bones. >> reporter: arkansas state police say the bus driver told them she lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll. the charter bus company that owns the bus, tennessee-based scott shuttle services, received

federal regulator's highest safety rating. the business was fined in july for allowing the driver to operate one of its vehicles without a proper license. >> a lot of them never had an opportunity to leave memphis. >> reporter: j.t.bragaw is one of several coaches and parents who raced to little rock to help care for the children. >> it was a huge trip for the kids and then it ended with complete tragedy. >> reporter: the bus company has not responded to our request for comment. we don't know if there were see belts on the bus but we do know there was a black box and that should help investigators as they look into the crash. as for the four kids in the hospital, they should make a full recovery. >> omar, thank you. this morning, u.s. health officials predict the number of patients with rare polio-like illnesses has peaked and will decline. we've been reporting on this parang condition called acute flaccid myelitis.

the cdc says most of the latest confirmed cases originally occurred in september and october. this follows a trend from previous years of confirmed cases dropping off in november. that's why they think there might be a decline. it is still unclear though exactly what causes afm. france's government says it will suspend the controversial fuel tax that triggered weeks of violent protests. >> the so-called yellow vest protests led to running battles between police and demonstrates in paris over the weekend. the safety vests used by broken down drivers symbolized the cost of fuel taxings. protesters are upset about rising prices and a declining standard of living. the three-month suspension is a s surprise u-turn by a government trying to ease tensions but it

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wish i had because he spoke very highly of him. and -- him and mr. bush, the nicest people you ever want to meet. he said between president reagan and also president bush and nancy reagan and also barbara bush, he said they are the nicest people you ever want to be around, just like skewtudio 57. >> touches a lot of people. keep hearing that word "grace" over and over and over again. here are three things you should know this morning -- new

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>> reporter: good morning. there is still no official con fishlz the body is -- confirmation the body is that of stefaniak. identification is expected later today. even before monday's discovery, her relatives told us they suspected foul play at the last place she was apparently seen alive. carla stefaniak's father spoke of his family's heartbreak before the announcement of a grim discovery. >> her mom is absolutely devastated. she can't speak. >> reporter: around noon monday, police in costa rica confirmed that search dogs found a partially buried female body covered with plastic bags in a wooded area near this airbnb property outside san jose. it is the same location where stefaniahecked last tu the last heard from her. a representative with the judicial investigation agency said a search inside the apartment found biological fluids compatible with blood. >> hot springs. >> reporter: stefaniak had spent

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wells fargo says a computer glitch is partly to blame for an error affecting an estimated 500 customers who lost their homes. the giant bank filed papers with the securities and exchange commission last month revealing that it incorrectly denied 870 lo loan modification requests. about 60% of those homeowners went into foreclosure. we're looking into how this happened. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. questions are coming from

legislators, housing advocates, regulators, and most importantly, the people who lost their homes. people likee agr. is hd for you. really hard for you. i can see that. >> it is. it's been very hard for me. it's something that shouldn't happen to anybody. >> reporter: these days jose aguilar can only drive by the home he and his family lost to foreclosure three years ago. the small ranch house in upstate new york where they wanted to raise their children. >> many kids used to run up and down, ride our bikes. >> reporter: he says the problems began when he and his then-wife found mold in the house. he tried to remediate himself but fell a few months behind on the mortgage payments. so the couple asked there are lender, wells fargo, to modify their loan to lower their monthly payment. >> at first they told me, okay, you might be able to qualify for a loan modification. >> reporter: he says then came the delay. weeks then months. waiting for a decision. >> and the whole process started

all over again. we got to the point we were a year behind. >> reporter: finally, wells fargo turned them down. so no loan modification. >> no loan modification. >> reporter: what was your reaction? after all that time? >> at that point i just gave up. >> reporter: he ando foreclosur. and with the hit to his credit, aguilar says he found no one would rent to him. >> at that point my son and i had to move to the basement of a friend's house. we stayed there for three months, and we had nothing. nothing but a couch, and my son had a bed. but -- >> reporter: that was tough. >> i felt worse -- worthless. like i let my family down. >> reporter: in september of this year, nearly three years later, he got a letter from wells fargo. "dear jose aguilar," it read, "we made a mistake.

we're sorry." it said the decision on his loan modification was based on a faulty colocongratulations, and his loan -- faulty calculation, and his loan should have been approv approved. >> are you serious? are you kidding me? like -- you destroy my kid's life and my life, and now you want me -- we're sorry? >> reporter: wells fargo now says that calculation error on loan modifications affected 870 customers over an eight-year period. customers who either were denied loan modifications or were not offered a modification in cases where they would have otherwise qualified. about 545 of those customers ultimately lost their homes to foreclosure. at least some of those people got a economic from wells fargo along with a -- a check from wells fargo along with a letter. in aguilar's case, it was for $25,000. his attorney says that doesn't begin to cover his total losses. how do you think they came up with the amounts of money that they handed out to people?

>> that's what we want to find out. we want to find out what went wrong, how it went wrong -- >> reporter: alys cohen is with the national consumer law center. >> the question is, how did this happen? aren't they supposed to check their computer programs regularly to make sure they're accurate? this is clearly more than a simple computer mistake. >> reporter: wells fargo declined an on-camera interview. the company could not say how much it expects to pay out in remediation to customers. jose aguilar says it's not just about money. >> i want wells fargo to know that there's people out there with feelings and families that try hard to pay their bills and survive. and where were you people -- we're not just money. >> wells fargo plans to work with each of the customers to reach a resolution. the bank is also offering no-cost mediation. meanwhile, nonprofit groups and some legislators are pushing for more answers.

>> a heartbreaking story, anna. you can still feel mr. aguilar's pain. it goes to show behind all of the loan applicatns, there are people with real lives. >> and money can't fix everything. >> no, that's very tough. coming up, a look at the other headlines including a highway patrol trooper who good tuesday morning to you. we're tracking a cutoff low just offshore that will bring light to moderate rain as we head through the afternoon and evening there so waves of rain and we're looking at a wet evening commute and we'll see scattered showers that will continue for tomorrow. so off and on rain later today. temperatures will be on the cool side in the 50s for all the of us. looking at scattered showers for tomorrow and then drier for the rest of the week. this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by -- machine. the cog you put in your machine.

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good morning to our viewers in the west. it's december 4th, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." former defense secretary robert gates says george h.w. bush was america's finest public servant. he takes us inside his close relationship with the 41st president. plus how small changes to a morning routine can make your entire day more productive. but first here is today's eye opener at 8:00. the president's flag-covered casket lies in state and steady stream of visitors has passed through since last night. >> president bush personified grace. >> people who have waited in line all night to catch a glimpse of the former president and pay their respects came here because this marks, in some ways, an end of an era. >> all of the u.s. presidents, including president trump, our nation's 45th president, will attend the funeral. >> did manage to bring congress together in one respect, a

two-week government funding deal has been agreed to. two kids at arkansas children's hospital and one of the passengers told us he felt the bus swerve and then violently roll. >> it ended in complete tragedy. >> many students say they want a silent sam monument gone for good. even if they want to, they say they can't legally do it. president of nigeria is denying rumors that he has been cloned. >> those rumors started when the president had to spend five months in the uk for medical treatment. he says i can assure you all that this is the real me. later this month i will celebrate my 76th birthday and i'm still going strong, which is exactly what a clone would say, in essence. so, i don't know. i mean -- >> that's a new one. president of nigeria cloned. he says not true. i'll believe him. i'm gayle king along with bianna

golodryga, norah o'donnell and john dickerson. the president will lie in state until tomorrow morning. he is just the 12th president to receive that honor. >> during a ceremony there yesterday, mr. bush was praised as a great leader and a good man, who personified grace. norah o'donnell is on capitol hill. norah, good morning. >> hey, good morning to you. it is an incredible scene here on the u.s. capital as the sun is just coming up here. there have been thousands of people who want to pay their respects to the 41st president of the united states. i talked to many of them just early this morning. people coming from connecticut, maryland, all over the country because they say george herbert walker bush was the last of his kind, that in some ways this marks the end of an era. members of president bush's cabinet and former vice president dan quayle were on the

steps as his casket arrived at the capitol for the final time. you could see president george w. bush was emotional as he looked on, as well as his wife, laura bush, and their four other siblings all there. such an incredibly moving moment. president trump and the first lady also made an unannounced visit to pay their respects at the rotunda last night. mr. trump is expected to attend the funeral on wednesday. he will not speak, though, at the funeral. also there will be former presidents jimmy carter, bill clinton and barack obama, all of america's living presidents will be there. and many are honoring president bush, the last president to serve in combat with his navy pilot acronym, cavu. what you should know is that it means ceiling and visibility unlimited. if you fly off an aircraft carrier, in the days when president bush was 18 years old and one of the youngest pilots

he said we would have to look for ceiling and visibility unlimited. it became a motto for his life. it meant more than just those words. in a letter to his children in 2001 around the gulf war he wrote this, because of you five, whose hugs i can still feel, whose own lives have made me so proud, i can conflictually tell my guardian angels that my life is cavu and it will be that wti bout at d hldrenkn iling d,y's the limit. that's how he lived his life. that's why he jumped out of airplanes up until he was 90 years old. that's the kind of man that president george h.w. bush was and is being remembered. so we'll bring you more on president bush's life as shown through his letters. that's all coming up in our next half hour. before we send it back to no, we want to show you the moment when

a military honor guard carried the president's flag-draped casket up the steps of the rotunda. it was the most incredible sunset i've ever seen here in washington. it just framed the capitol building. it just painted the sky this beautiful orange, magenta and purple. it was a beautiful backdrop, really, for this tribute and it seemed to last forever. it was like the perfect timing. the family rid. n sawsh, mrs. bu standing tre next ge w. b and ng beaut. can her lips th seen.things i'veve t only tt washingtoasng tte butr heky tribute thside eatest generation. >> norah, thank you. when you have the weather on your side, it's special, indeed. secretary robert gates served as deputy national security adviser and cia director under president george

herbert walker bush. he has worked under eight presidents in his decades of public service, most recently as secretary of defense under presidents george wncht bush and barack obama. he is here for an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." mr. secretary, good morning. >> thank you. >> of all those presidents, where does george herbert walker bush slot in? >> well, he clearly was my favorite. i spent the most time with him, you know, during those tumultuous days in 1989, 1990, '91 with all the history that was being made, his national security adviser brent skrokopf and i spent days with him. i traveled domestically with him. policy more than anything else. >> we hear about his attribute of restraint with president hat play out in terms of national security,

specifically with the collapse of the soviet union? >> i think the best example and one where he was criticized was he was criticized for not celebrating sufficiently when the berlin wall came down. and what he understood that very few of its critics understood was that gorbachev's position in moscow was relatively parless at that time and the concern that he had was that if he celebrated too much, it could serve as a provocation to the conservatives in the soviet union, who were still powerful, in the kgb, the army and the party. in fact, the same people who launched a coup against gorbachev two years later. and i think in retrospect, he felt and w all november, it might, in fact, have precipitated the coup against gorbachev a couple of years earlier and he may not

have survived it. >> and fast forward to today when vladimir putin calls fall of communism the worst devastation that could have happened in the 20th century. let me ask you about something that i keep hearing and reading from a lot of democrats, too, who have said they voted for maybe one republican for president, and that was george h.w. bush. that, in fact, he may have been the best president of their lifetime. what do you think it was about him that brought in people from the other side of the aisle? >> well, i think it was his willingness to reach across the aisle. he always put the best interest of the country first. the decision that he made to compromise on no new taxes was really putting -- i mean, he felt that was really necessary to put the country on a sound, fiscal basis going forward, and he was willing to work with the democrats to do it, knowing full well what the political cost would be. and so his willingness to put

the partisan agenda, to make the partisan agenda secondary to what was in the best interest of the country, i think, had a lot of appeal to the democrats on the hill. i also think it was his personality, the way he reached out to them. he would go down from the white house for a drink in the evening. he served up there. he knew their practices. he knew the way it worked on the hill. so i think it was all those things that peopl willing to work with him. that said, there were still some pretty partisan battles during that time and i remember them. >> we keep hearing about his sense of humor and his compassion. you spent -- every day you spent with him for at least two years. you got to see him publicly and privately. can you give us an example of his humor and an example of his compassion? >> he was -- he was just a lot of fun to work for. >> yeah. >> so my favorite -- he is the only president i ever worked for

who actually created an award for the person who most obviously fell asleep in a meeting with the president of the united states. this wasn't frivolous. he evaluated you in terms of the depth of your sleep, snoring always got you points. >> that's good. >> the duration and then the quality of the recovery. did you just kind of return to consciousness or was it a jolt? >> that's good. >> and his compassion, i remember vividly. i flew down on the helicopter with him to norfolk after the tragedy on the battleship iowa, in which a tourette blew up and killed 43 sailors. and he went down to the memorial service and on the helicopter he kept reading his remarks and he kept breaking down. and he said i don't know if i can get through this. he said i once asked ronald reagan, how do you get through

these things and reagan said i just go over and over and over it. and bush said, i just keep going over and over and over it and i just can't get past this one passage. so he gave the remarks and, you know, as is typical, he got criticized because he rushed through his remarks. and there were only a handful of us that realized he rushed through his remarks because he knew that was the only way he would make it through without breaking down in front of a national television audience. he felt very deeply. we talked about his sense of humor. that sense of humor sort of went underground for the entire period of the gulf war. he knew the responsibility he was taking on. he knew that he was sending hundreds of thousands of young americans into peril, into harm's way. and a lot of the joking around went away, frankly, until after the war was over. >> mr. secretary, thank you very

much for being with us. >> absolutely. cbs news will have complete coverage of tomorrow's state funeral for president george herbert walker bush. you can see it tomorrow morning in a s

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"the new york times" best-selling author james greer morning blues with an effective morning and a.m. routine. his latest book is "atomic habits," an easy and proven ways to big new habits and break bad ones. we can't stop talking about your last appearance. >> yes. >> what makes for an effective morning routine? can it start at 4:00 a.m.? >> well it can for you all. you know, there's no one morning routine, right, that like successful people follow. it can involve meditation, exercise, involve writing down your to-do list and prioritizing your tasks. there's no one thing that people do. i think if you look at people who set their day up for

success, one thing they do have, no matter whether at home or at work is some sacred space to prioritize the day. to think about what do i need to get done, what's going to set this up for success, and they have time carved out. >> how long do you set aside? >> for me, my morning routine is incredibly fast. you know, i wake up, take a shower, get a glass of water, and prioritize and get started on the first task. i'm done and like into work within 15 minutes. but for other people they find they want more time to ease into the day. there's no single amount of time. >> bathing is important to you. >> yes. it is. >> are you an "eat the frog" kind of person. do your hardest task first, or do you prioritize to later in the day? >> strange to say both. bu the whole kwld behind "eat the frog" is you take the most difficult thing and do it first. there's also value in gaining momentum as soon as you get up. something as simple as making your bed when you wake up get some kind of positive flow moving into the day. and so i like to have something

like that, make the bed, to get things moving in the right direction. then start working on the difficult task. >> i've heard you say a good morning starts the night before. what you talking about, willis? i don't get that. >> well, a good morning starts the night before because often -- this is especially true for parents -- you can have the best morning routine, but your 4-year-old can derail everything. for many families getting out the door feels like a race to get things going in the morning. if you can prioritize the night before, whether coming up with your to-do list for the next day or, you know, making lunches for the kids at school, things like, that the more you get done the night before, the more you set yourself up for success. the second part is sleep. you know, you can't -- it doesn't matter what your routine is, you can't chat the fact that you don't have enough -- you can't cheat the fact that you don't have enough slupeep. you set yourself up well -- >> seems like technology

disrupts morning routines. >> especially true for millennials and people in the younger generation. we use our phones as our alarms. so you wake up, you turn your alarm off. rather than getting out of bed, you lay there and start to scroll. and it's like, well, i don't quite want to get up yet, and then before you know it, 10, 15, 20 minutes have passed, i'm going to be late. one solution is charge your phone in another room each day rather than keeping it next to you at the wbed. >> we are almost out of time speaking of time. great to have you back on. >> thank you. >> thank you. ahead, apple reveals its artist of the year. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ ♪ oh, look... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week.

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good morning from the traffic center. we were tracking a car crash and a vehicle fire southbound 238. the good news is it's now cleared out of the roadway. we are seeing some much better delays as you head through there . still a bit busy as you head through hayward and san lore nzo. the bay bridge metering lights are still on. it looks like we're still seeing a back up all the way into the maze. san mateo bridge this morning earlier crash in the center divide. 30 minutes that go from 880 towards 101.

no accidents, just extra busy coming down on that southbound side of 101 into the city. we are tracking high def doppler and you can see the showers offshore and then to our north. so tracking just a few light showers. as we go through the afternoon looking at waves and periods of light to moderate rain, starting in the afternoon with off and on rain for tonight. so it could be a wet evening commute with scattered showers that will continue for tomorrow. as we are tracking this cutoff. low pressure system just kind of meandering around offshore. so off and on rain today and for tomorrow. catching a break for thursday and a lot drier with that sunshine as we end out the week. have a great day.

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write a memoir many letters were assembled in the best selling bach, all the best, george bush. his humor and philosophy on life and love for family were all laid out in what are thousands of personal notes. >> wait until you hear this. you'll know what i'm talking about. >> to understand george h. w. bush, just rook for that familiar handwriting. >> deer kids, this letter is about aging. last year there was only a tiny sense of time left. >> in a note to his children in 1998, the father of six reflected on getting old. >> i want to play golf with you and fish or throw shoes and rejoice in your victories. when i say be there, i mean in the game, in the lineup, involved in your lives even though miles away. >> he didn't save words for just family and friends. he also shared them with rivals. >> you'll be our president when you read this note. i wish you well. >> on 60 minutes president bill clinton read the letter he received from the man he beat in

1992. >> your success now is our country's success. i'm routing hard for you. good luck. >> there was a kindness about the man. >> during his remarks monday vice president mike pence smard a letter his son, a first lieutenant in the marines received from president bush ahead of a ceremony aboard the uss george h. w. bush. >> congratulations on wings of gold. though we have not met i share the pride your father has for you. >> his heart the felt letters, though. >> i love you, precious with all my heart. >> were written to the love of his life baurn ray. he shared one while speaking to oprah in 2010. >> and to know you love me means my life. how often have i thought that the immeasurable joy that will be ours some day. >> a legacy through letters. >> well i'll be ready when you are, where there is so much excitement ahead, so many grand kids to watch grow, if you need

me, i'm here. devotedly, dad. >> isn't that nice? devotedly. you know, president bush described the book containsing all the letters as a a heartbeat rather than a historical documentation of his life. sometimes the 41st president wasn't always known for verbal eloquence, in written word he said so much. i was looking back through. not only just the professional letters he wrote but the personalters - h onc wrote to kathryn hepburn in 1982. saying we respect you so. as a little kid i thought you were in the me owist of the cat's. >> norah, never bad to be called the cat's meow. but i love the letters. >> the meow icht of the cat

'meows. >> 60 minutes leslie stahl covered the white house during george h. w. bush's president as vice president and president. she broke the news that mr. bush was chosen as ronald reagan's running mate. leslie challenges him as president and vice president. >> a top lieutenant just said they're not ford. they said it was absolutely definitely bush. they're yelling bush. everyone is yelling bu youerene constantly loyal. if you decide to run for president in 1988, won't that have hurt your image if you continue along always being so sportive and never standing up. >> what would hurt my image if i tried to see these are the good

things that i secretly told the president he shouldn't do this or that. somewhere along the line you trip over something called character. >> this is a sort of great victory for our side in the big east west battle. but you don't seem elated and i wonder if you think. >> i'm elated i'm just not an emotional kind of guy. >> and citiesly stahl joins us. you were in the room. you and 41 have a lot of history together. integrity and class matter to this man and you saw that. >> it was innature or his mother pounded it in. but that little clip about the berlin wall coming down, everybody in the world was -- well everybody in the western world was celebrating the wall came down. people were dancing on the wall. and he summoned the white house pool reporters into the oval office to make a statement. and he waste ar he was kind of slump.

and i askedd e reason turned ou be -- and i think bob gates told you earlier he didn't want to gloat and he didn't want to, you know, rub gorbachev's nose in the fact that we had won the cold war. there was a -- you talked about integrity. he was decent. he was -- he had compassion. henry kissinger. i once asked henry kissinger what makes a great leader? he said a great leader has to have suffered, has to have face add trial. >> he certainly did that with the loss of his daughter. >> kpleexactly. >> and i think that contributed to his compassion and depth as a human being. >> you covered a lot of the ite houses. and all that -- how is it he different just in the day to day of being in and around the white house. >> i covered carter, reagan and bush. and i never saw carter or reagan

wandering around the white house, you know poking into offices. i he would say, hey how are you? and tease, towel snapping. he was a person person if you know what i mean. >> if he was upset with the press did you know it? did you hear from him. >> not personal but we knew it. we had a press secretary, the buffer. but i got many lovely notes. and they were all the kind of notes you have heard from other reporters. all is forgiven kind of notes. >> it's interesting. yes. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say one other thing, covering the white house wsh barbara bush had a meeting with a group of us. and we had lunch up in the living quarters. and then she gave us a tour. and two things i'll never forget. one is that she brought us into the lincoln bedroom. it's the only time i covered the white house for ten years -- the

only time i'd been in there. and there was a toy box. i mean grandchildren were a huge part of his life. he had a lot of them. and they came and stayed at the white house. and the toys were all over the place. now, he was real and didn't try to say he wasn't real. the other thing is that barbara took us to a window right up there. and she said, look, she could see right into the oval office. she could keep hero eye on him if she wanted. >> and she said she told him what was on her mind but told him in the bedroom, right not in the public domain. >> right. >> what was their relationship like to cover from your vantage point. >> well they were so different. she was -- she was terrific, you know. authentic. real. she made a point of saying these aren't real pearls. it was a big contrast with nancy reagan from before, and maybe barbara even made sure people

understood the conflict. that she was the boss. he talked about it. but i think she really was the boss. i don't think he just talked about it. >> bipartisanshi didn't seem to be a bad word back then. >> well it's a different time. >> yeah. >> of course he was -- he came out of the world war ii generation. and they had a code to live b that we don't seem to have anymore, which in my opinion is sad. >> what's amazing quickly is that it's bush walter -- we saw the clip. bush and reagan fought like crazy. and they were a team and even though they had the bad fights. >> it's a metaphor for the way he conducted his life. all is forgiven. i'm not holding anything against you, because that's not my code. that's not the rule -- the moral rule that i live by and have to live by and want to live by.

and tough admire that. >> he famously told reagan i will never embarrass you as vice president. >> right. >> thank you, leslie for coming this morning. >> if there is a christmas tree at your house, chances are it's not real. ahead, how christmas tree

mom, i can't feel my hands -- >> clark? >> yes, honey? >> audrey's frozen from the waist down. >> all part of the experience, honey. there it is. ♪ >> that's how it goes, right? finding a perfect christmas tree is a must for families, a lot of families like the griswalds. the american christmas tree association says more than three quarters of american households put up a tree every year. about 80% are artificial. that's an increase of more than 30% since 1992. this year a million-dollar campaign is trying to convince you to buy real christmas trees this year. nikki battiste is at balsam hill holiday shop in new jersey. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. about 30 million real christmas trees are sold in the u.s. every year. artificial trees have become increasingly popular since they were created in the 1880s. just look at these trees next to

me. it's hard to tell which is real, which is fake, and which can bring more holiday joy to your home. we're looking at how many trees on all this land? >> 65,000 trees on 65 acres. >> reporter: that's unbelievable. how many are ready to sell? >> we have between 5,000 and 6,000 trees ready for sale this year. >> reporter: oh, these merry, ir is eight- li hnwivoff's170crarm -- ou dnghere? picking our meand he holidays. >> i think it's memories. i think it's the joy of, you know, hearing them saying, we're going to cut our tree! >> reporter: what would christmas be without a real christmas tree? a choice that promotion board's million-dollar social media campaign -- >> so many to choose from -- >> reporter: -- is fighting to preserve.

>> it's christmas, keep it real! >> reporter: by encouraging americans to keep it real. we're getting our tree for this year. we came here last year, he proposed which was lovely. >> we've got a small tradition going. >> reporter: to anyone thinking about going to buy an artificial tree, what deuce to them? >> i wouldn't give -- what do you say to them? >> i wouldn't give my wife fake roses on valentine's day, why would you want to have an artificial tree in your how to? >> reporter: americans buy more than 27 million christmas trees. >> seven to ten years is how long it takes to grow a real tree. >> reporter: farmers planted fewer trees years ago, that means this year supply is below demand which has boosted business and prices. a real tree like this on average will cost you about $75. or for anywhere from $9,000 to $19,000 you can buy an artificial tree like this and it will last you a lifetime. there's a bit of a real or fake christmas competition going on.

about 80% of u.s. households put up artificial trees. >> we like to have an artificial tree because i have allergies. we've had some our whole lives. >> the artificial trees, so convenient. they don't have bugs. you put them up, and -- you're set. >> balsam hill has everything you need to make the season bright. >> reporter: artificial tree companies like balsam hill are also stepping up their marketing and tech game. >> just the section and it goes down in there, and as soon as it goes in, it lights up. >> reporter: mack harman created balsam hill in 2006 when he was disappointed with the fake tree option. >> it comes pre-lit which is a huge advantage. it. also you don't have to water you t to swee t needles. >> reporter: harman also enjoys real christmas trees and says above all it's about the holiday spirit. >> i think anything that helps promote christmas trees really helps our christmas tree industry. fewer families are setting up christmas trees each year. what i like about keep it real

is it's focused on a younger demographic and getting them excited about going to a christmas tree farm and having that experience, like this is a family tradition that we do together. >> reporter: if you're really torn over real or fake, one solution is to join the 11% of americans like my mom who buy both. >> we're all about the real ones, right? all about the smell. >> we're trying to figure out what a $19,000 artificial tree looks like. but thanks. we'll be right back. (toni vo) 'twas the night before christma,

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good morning. if you are headed out the door no accidents or incidents. that's the good news. just still busy as you work your way on the bay bridge this morning. jumping over and taking a look at some of our other bay area bridges. the golden gate bridge we saw some delays on the southbound side of that bridge. it will take you 25 minutes from san rafael into san francisco. the richmond san rafael still a little slow . give yourself 19 minutes to commute from the east bay over into morin and a quick look at 880 northbound slow past the coliseum. you're going to see delays like this. still pockets of slowing out of hayward. looks like it's busy as well on

that southbound side through fremont. how's the forecast here's mary. we are tracking that rain offshore. we had a few showers up across gar berville this morning and near fort bragg. we're still going to continue to see light to moderate rain could be a wet and evening commute. scattered showers continue for your wednesday. this is all because of a cutoff low pressure system that's kind of meandering out there and because of that we're looking at that wet weather as we head through the rest of today and for tomorrow. drier through the end of the week. have a great day.

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